Students

Being a Creative Writing Student

Staying active in the creative writing community is easy for students.  The college literary magazine, The Great Lake Review, welcomes dozens of editors in all genres-and publishes dozens of students across genres.  There are two active creative writing clubs, Writers Open Forum and The Creative Writing Club. 

The creative writing faculty offices open onto a common public space where students are encouraged to congregate and swap stories, poems, essays, screenplays and plays.  In this space are literary journals available for student use, free copies of The Writer's Chronicle, notices for national and international undergraduate writing contests in various genres.

Nearby are small classrooms used for creative writing classes-state-of-the-art facilities that include multiple audio-visual and internet linkages.  In those classrooms student voices are valued, whether on the page or spoken aloud.

Scholarships, Contests, and Awards

Every year the Creative Writing department offers a variety of scholarships, along with contests and awards that often provice cash prizes. Students can submit works in multiple genres and be eligible to be published. Students are highly encouraged to submit to national contests as well as local ones. For more information about scholarships, contests, and awards, click here.

New Voices

One of our annual contests is New Voices. Every year playwrights at SUNY Oswego may enter a competition for best ten-minute play. Winners are selected by a pannel of judges. The winning plays are then paired with student directors from the Theatre Program, resulting in several nights of staged reasings of the best ten-minute plays. This contest has been held at SUNY Oswego for over twenty years, making it one of the oldest ongoing competitions for undergraduate playwrights in the United States. Click here to see the results of New Voices 2013.

Clubs and Activities

SUNY Oswego has three writing,editing, and criquing clubs that students can join and have fun. By joining one of the many clubs at SUNY Oswego, students can develop skills and writing that can help them in classwork, but also make friends that last a life time.

• The Great Lake Review
• Writer's Open Forum (WOF)
• Creative Writing Club